Gerry McGovern on Nostr: "Big tech firms have been secretive about the amount of public water used by ...
"Big tech firms have been secretive about the amount of public water used by individual data centers, and up to half of all data centers don’t even measure how much water they use. According to one survey, a municipality of Mexico City and Central Mexico is home to Microsoft’s first hyperscale data center campus in the country. The town of 67,000 is suffering extreme drought. Its two dams have nearly dried up."
https://therealnews.com/ai-data-centers-are-draining-water-from-this-drought-stricken-mexican-townThe poor will go thirsty as the data drinks its fill.
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